Use of CGI Script as Home Page (Redirect to CGI-BIN)

[gsownsby]

Abyss Version: 1.2.2.2 for Linux

My goal is to automatically and seamlessly redirect a website visit to a CGI (PERL) script (Web-App) which dynamically generates a "home page." The Web-App script generates a "portal" type environment in which all pages are generated on-the-fly.

This PERL script is located in the cgi-bin directory and works very well if called directly through a URL link....www.domainname.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi. I do not want to locate the index.cgi in the HTDOCS directory since that would require a complete configuration change to the script's "standard location" variables...so index.cgi needs to stay in the cgi-bin directory.

I thought I read that Abyss itself would do this without using a separate script. Is this possible? I have installed the Web-App script on a commercial web server which has a simple redirect function so when someone visits the website it points them to the cgi-bin/index.cgi script rather than HTDOCS/index.html. So with that said, how do we get to:

www.domainname.com ===> www.domainname.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi ??

I have not had any success with the "redirect" scripts (PHP / PERL) that have been discussed on this forum. Thanks.

[Anonymoose]

Make a simple index.html that includes an instant meta-refresh redirecting to the CGI bin...

http://www.pageresource.com/html/metref.htm

[gsownsby]

Anonymoose,

Thank you for your help. It worked. I set the delay parameter to zero and it instantly redirected. Some times one can't see the forest for the trees. Simple solution.

Did anyone read or hear that Abyss would do this in some way?

Thanks again!!

[Anonymoose]

This is a standard HTML feature - I haven't seen anything about Abyss being able to do an auto-redirect...

[TRUSTAbyss]

You can try out my Multiple Site script version that I created
to help users fill out the right code areas lol

http://www.multiple-sites.tk

use /cgi-bin and it will forward correctly

(Original script by: BlueDog)